Conscience is God present in man.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
Reality in strong doses frightens.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
Toleration is the best religion.
True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Love is the only future God offers.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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